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A Cooperative Approach to Management Education Editor’s note: In this article, when citing Canadian sources, we have retained their practice of hyphenating “co-operative.” Education is a central principle of the... |
04 Jun 2010 | #148 May - June - 2010 |
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A Cooperative Grievance Procedure download the additional chart What recourse do co-op employees have if adversely affected by a management decision? How do they contest the wording of a performance review, the amount of a... |
31 Dec 2009 | #146 January - February - 2010 |
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A Credible Alternative to the Current Economic System A TED presentation in the U.K. by Shane Hughes, titled “The Unstoppable Rise of a Collaborative Economy,” argued for the combination of a cooperative economy, a collaborative economy,... |
08 Apr 2013 | • Endcap Articles |
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A Faster Path to the Bottom Line Wheatsfield Co-op didn’t want to reinvent the wheel. The Ames, Iowa, co-op was expanding and working through the plethora of challenges and decisions such projects present. The staff leveraged... |
31 Dec 2009 | #146 January - February - 2010 |
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A General Manager Bids Farewell When I woke up that fateful morning, I had first-day-on-the-job jitters. However, I was excited about my new job and eager to get started. I was introduced to the staff and then handed a bucket, a... |
08 Dec 2010 | #151 November - December 2010 |
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A Global Cooperative Mandate The world clearly is in dire need of approaches to social issues that are more democratic and more just. In this vein, the potential for cooperative enterprise is receiving greater attention,... |
20 Feb 2013 | #164 Jan-Feb 2013 |
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A Good Servant to the Co-op Community A Good Servant to the Co-op Community |
07 Jan 2004 | #104 January - February - 2003 |
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A Greater Share in Your Future? The Davis Food Co-op capital plan is one that has developed step by step over the past eight years. It is not perfect, and were we starting from scratch might not be today's choice. On the other... |
09 Jan 2004 | #048 September - October - 1993 |
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A Greater Velocity of Cooperation Well over three hundred directors, managers, trainers, and other cooperators met at the 2001 Consumer Cooperative Management Association (CCMA) conference under the theme, "... |
08 Jan 2004 | #095 July - August - 2001 |
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A Guide to the 2007 Farm Bill The following summary was adapted from “Rural Updates,” the online newsletter of Defenders of Wildlife. They encourage readers to subscribe to “Rural Updates” at: www.familyfarmer.org/sections/... |
15 May 2007 | #130 May - June - 2007 |
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A Member Linkage Tool Builds Policy and Action NOTE: This article is a summary of a workshop presented at CCMA 2000 called "Building Member Linkage: A Tool for Policy and Action." What follows is first a description of the presentation... |
08 Jan 2004 | #092 January - February - 2001 |
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A Model for Cooperative Challenges Mastering strategy is absolutely key for a manager. “One of the most important of a manager’s tasks consists in establishing the organization’s strategy—or in at least overseeing the process by... |
21 Jan 2009 | #116 January - February - 2005 |
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A Model for Ownership Succession download pdf of article As Franklin Community Co-op celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2007, “managing growth” had become a repeated refrain and a way of life, as we worked to creatively use... |
03 Mar 2009 | #141 March - April - 2009 |
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A Near Miss at Mississippi Market What went wrong? What lessons can other co-ops contemplating expansion learn from Mississippi Market's experience? By all accounts, Mississippi Market's second store expansion was... |
08 Jan 2004 | #092 January - February - 2001 |
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A Neighborhood Co-op Market download pdf of article Anyone could build a new store,” says Tony White, director of operations at the Hanover Co-op in Hanover, N.H. “We wanted to build a new co-op store.” He’s talking... |
20 May 2009 | #142 May - June - 2009 |
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A Participative Process of Cooperative Planning When Sandy Roberts joined the board of directors of Food Front Cooperative Grocery in 1989, she had experience as a strategic planning consultant, and hoped to have Food Front develop a strategic... |
12 Jan 2004 | #046 May - June - 1993 |
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A Recipe for Good Board Meetings Here it comes again: the monthly board meeting. You’ve figured out child care for the fourth Monday of every month, that version of parental Olympics where Mom runs out the door as Dad runs in. A... |
31 Dec 2009 | #146 January - February - 2010 |
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A SLICE of Cooperation SLICE: Strengthening Local Independent Co-ops Everywhere, is an annual conference and organizing project in the Puget Sound region of Washington State. The SLICE vision of an expanding cooperative... |
04 Jun 2012 | #160 May - June - 2012 |
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A Small Co-op Grows Greener When a food co-op builds or remodels its own home, the project rivets the attention and scrutiny of its neighborhood. In the case of Oneota Community Food Co-op in rural Decorah, Iowa, the... |
23 Apr 2008 | #135 March - April - 2008 |
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A Smoother Road to Deli Margins Delis with a labor problem aren’t hard to come by. Newer teams guzzle labor dollars while struggling to achieve a learning curve and a critical mass of cooperation. Until your foodservice... |
21 Jan 2009 | #118 May - June - 2005 |
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A Suggestion for Co-op Survival A Suggestion for Co-op Survival |
07 Jan 2004 | #104 January - February - 2003 |
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A Tale of Two Brands During the past year, I received many calls and emails from National Cooperative Grocers Association (NCGA) member stores asking how they should integrate the Co-op Advantage brand with their... |
20 Jan 2009 | #125 July - August - 2006 |
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A Trojan Horse in Our Midst The Uniform Limited Cooperative Association Act (which I'll refer to as the ULCAA or the Act) is a "model" statute proposed for adoption in the individual states. It is a governing statute for an... |
08 Dec 2010 | #151 November - December 2010 |
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A Victory for Local and Regional Food Updating the story on food safety legislation. |
05 Jan 2011 | • Endcap Articles |
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A View from the CEO of National Co-op Bank download pdf of article I am asked every day my opinion about the economy. Are we going to have another depression? When is the housing market going to turn around? |
18 Jan 2009 | #140 January - February - 2009 |
